I don't think losing that back fore is necessarily a bad thing.
Did we have a plan for life after Suarez?
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Not if you're named Ross.
Evra - Shaw : one step forward (just)
Ferdinand/Vidic vs and 2 from Jones/Smalling/Carrick/Evans : one step back even allowing for their slowdown due to age/fitness
Rafael (injured again) vs Smalling : one step back
Rooney sitting in the corner in cold sweats.
Mate, someone says that every year. Never happens.
I am concerned about Suarez's replacement(s) so far.
We've signed some very good players in this window and we've arguable gone some way towards replacing his trickery and invention (potentially). But what we haven't replaced yet is his tenacity, aggression and work rate - and that could be the most important aspect of replacing a player like Luis Suarez.
Yeah we can spread the goals around a bit and tighten up at the back. Sure we can ask a few more of the creative players to chip in with more assists. But systems and formations aside, the style and effectiveness of the team could be compromised without a terrier on the pitch offering that constant threat in the final third.
Vidal is the only player that we've been linked with so far that I think can inject some of that tenacity and aggression back in to the side.
We've signed some very good players in this window and we've arguable gone some way towards replacing his trickery and invention (potentially). But what we haven't replaced yet is his tenacity, aggression and work rate - and that could be the most important aspect of replacing a player like Luis Suarez.
Yeah we can spread the goals around a bit and tighten up at the back. Sure we can ask a few more of the creative players to chip in with more assists. But systems and formations aside, the style and effectiveness of the team could be compromised without a terrier on the pitch offering that constant threat in the final third.
Vidal is the only player that we've been linked with so far that I think can inject some of that tenacity and aggression back in to the side.
If I'm not mistake, it was with Hodgson as manager, with Masher on strike...with Torres on strike, with the club in crisis. Update that database and add that second placed finish and a better manager W.
does he have the clap again?
Setting aside the controversy and bans, it was wonderful having Suarez playing for Liverpool these past few years and so much of what he did on the field of play defied belief. In terms of footballing ability, he's the most capable player Liverpool have ever had.
As Rodgers has pointed out, Liverpool benefited from having him in the team however the manager played a significant part in turning him into the elite player he is today. Like all good managers, Rodgers showed flexibility in moving away from his preferred formation to build the team around an exceptional player. There's little doubt he will be setting up the team differently now that Suarez has gone making the task of finding a direct replacement unnecessary as well as impossible.
Liverpool will obviously miss his goals, assists and the fear factor to opposing teams but they will also miss his infectious attitude in training and in games, something that can't be coached or faked. The other players responded to him like no other when he was stand in captain before Christmas last year and no one else has demanded so much from his teammates on the field as well as himself in all my time supporting Liverpool. He played as if he would do anything to win, and often did.
In this respect Suarez leaves a huge void and I wonder how much of it can be filled by the new look team? Henderson seems to have some of this attitude and perhaps Lovren may also from further back. Will we be surprised by anyone else stepping forward out of his shadow?
As Rodgers has pointed out, Liverpool benefited from having him in the team however the manager played a significant part in turning him into the elite player he is today. Like all good managers, Rodgers showed flexibility in moving away from his preferred formation to build the team around an exceptional player. There's little doubt he will be setting up the team differently now that Suarez has gone making the task of finding a direct replacement unnecessary as well as impossible.
Liverpool will obviously miss his goals, assists and the fear factor to opposing teams but they will also miss his infectious attitude in training and in games, something that can't be coached or faked. The other players responded to him like no other when he was stand in captain before Christmas last year and no one else has demanded so much from his teammates on the field as well as himself in all my time supporting Liverpool. He played as if he would do anything to win, and often did.
In this respect Suarez leaves a huge void and I wonder how much of it can be filled by the new look team? Henderson seems to have some of this attitude and perhaps Lovren may also from further back. Will we be surprised by anyone else stepping forward out of his shadow?
We are probably aiming to concede fewer goals for one. Goals and assists to come having (1) more dribblers and creators in the side (Lallana, Markovic, even Can can dribble) (2) more pace throughout the side, as the signings of Moreno and Manquillo suggest.
We are still one classy forward from entering the new season with full confidence, but we're getting there.
We are still one classy forward from entering the new season with full confidence, but we're getting there.
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